Richard Dawkins Quotes

People like to trace their ancestry.

Richard Dawkins

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PeopleLikeTraceAncestry

In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.

John Barrowman

MyselfFindEverythingRoleSome

You think you've done it all, and then you realize, 'No, there's so much more to do.'

John Leguizamo

ThinkYouDoneMoreRealizeMuch

I love being the center of attention.

John Mayer

LoveAttentionCenterBeingI Love

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

Robert M. Pirsig

MorningNightWeekYouWallPretty

I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.

Jeffrey Skoll

CommunityTrustSmallYouPhone

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

Jeff Koons

HistoryTimeArtLookingMoreThan

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.

Steven Michael Quezada

MorningColdDesertSandIceEarly

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

Sturgill Simpson

HistoryTimeProgressSurviveYou

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

Toni Morrison

WorkPeopleDoneShapingShouldHow

Whenever I'm given a chance to support veterans' initiatives, I try to do that. Children and veterans - if they're involved, you can pretty much count me in.

Rob Riggle

ChildrenSupportMeChanceYouTry

I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.

Roberto Aguire

PeopleFoundationThinkYouActing

If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is expensive and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.

Mickey Drexler

TodayTrainingAmericaYouPerson

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